JK Rowling is going to release "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" for sale! As some of the Harry Potter Fans might know, in December of 2007 JK created 7 hand-written copies and 1 was publicly auctioned off. It was later revealed that the famous bidder was none other than Amazon (who won with a bid of £1.95 million / $4 million). The money went to charity but to this day no other copies have been published.That is until now! On December 4th, 2008, they are going to release it. There will be the standard edition that I have pictured in the top left and Amazon is also releasing a collector's edition (maximum of 100,000 copies) that closely resembles the original hand-made ones.
The book contains 5 stories including the famous "The Tale of the Three Brothers" that plays an important role in the final Harry Potter book. They will also feature additional commentary on each fairy tale from Professor Dumbledore and an introduction by J K Rowling. All net proceeds from the sale of the books will be donated to The Children's High Level Group, the English charity co-founded by J K Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP to help children suffering in institutions.
Use this link to see the Amazon order information as well as pictures of the famous orginal they purchased at Sotheby's: Amazon's Original
Use this link to see an article from Borders: Tales of Beedle the Bard
The standard edition seems to be priced out at $12.99 but Amazon currently is offering $7.59.
The Amazon Collector's Edition (Pictured above) is priced out at $100 and will be sold in limited quantities. Both can be ordered at the Amazon link mentioned before. 
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment